Weird Science #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Panic!", Harvey Kurtzman crafts a haunting, post-apocalyptic tale of survival and legacy, following Luis and Rosa, two survivors of an atomic bomb explosion, whose lives take a startling turn in the aftermath. As Rosa returns to their home in Argenta and gives birth to their son Pedro, her final act is to deliver him to the President—unaware that the child’s exposure to radiation has awakened an extraordinary mind. With art and storytelling by Kurtzman and a striking cover by Al Feldstein, this 1950 EC classic delivers a chilling, thought-provoking vision of a world reshaped by catastrophe.
In "Panic!", a frantic radio broadcast spreads chaos as a hoax about an alien invasion from Jupiter sweeps the airwaves—just as real extraterrestrials descend upon Earth. With the line between fiction and reality crumbling, panicked listeners scramble to survive a threat they can't tell is real or imagined.
In the aftermath of an atomic blast, a dying father entrusts his newborn son to a nation still reeling from war. Though his mother Rosa succumbs to radiation, their child Pedro inherits a shocking gift—genius-level intellect from the same deadly exposure. As the Argenta President and his inner circle take notice, the boy’s fate becomes entangled with a government built on fear and control.
In "I Created a... Gargantua!", a scientist attempts to help a small man achieve a taller stature by manipulating his pituitary gland—only to unleash an unintended, unstoppable growth spurt that spirals into a towering, 700-foot crisis.
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Reprinted in Weird Science #15 [4] (1950), Weird Science #1 (1980), Phantastische Geschichten #1 (1986), Iskalde Grøss #3/1990 (1990), I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #2 (1991), I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 (1991), Iskalde Grøss #7/1991 (1991), Weird Science #4 (1993), Weird Science Annual #1 (1994), EC Archives: Weird Science #1 (2006), Weird Science #1 (2006), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #6 (2013), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #24 (2019), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #27 (2020), Weird Science #1 (2021), EC Archives: Weird Science #1 (2022)
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